Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. The good news is that great stories are all around you. EVERY nonprofit has stories to tell! What Makes a Good Story? What is happening in your hero’s life?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values. Higher temperature values (e.g.,

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work. There is no shortage of frameworks and methodologies for measuring, assessing, and articulating social impact; however, one element that we must not lose sight of is our qualitative data and stories.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

Referencing relevant, older campaign data can help you get a sense of which strategies or channels seem to generate the most engagement. Look into your audience’s giving history, previous event attendance, in-kind donation support, or online engagement with your cause to understand how to best reach them. Demographics.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Giving USA found that 78% of an organization’s donors who made a planned gift had a history of making donations within the past 20 years. Building relationships with potential planned donors is an important preliminary step to generate interest. A philanthropic study found that the average bequest was nearly $78,000.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

If you saw an ad, and later read an email, you’d know it was the same, just from the language. On the website, a similar story — we doubled our revenue. Big takeaways: A Giving Day can become a big day for your community that can generate more and more excitement (and revenue!) every year.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

On the other hand, recent global events that impact your cause might generate greater passion for your mission, leading to increased donations. Identification factors Generally, donors with a history of giving, high engagement with your organization , and a high generosity score (capacity for donating) will be the best major gift candidates.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Communicating stories and opportunities to engage in ways that deepen your relationship with your supporters is a critical strategy for any mid-level donor program, and digital can support that. Though these pieces mostly do not include direct donation asks, they also generate incremental revenue. Cultivate and engage.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . And, getting your story in the news still carries a lot of weight.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. for the most current language being used and incorporate it into your plan. Here's a brief description of the elements to include in your case statement: Mission + History.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. Want to get your site checked for inclusive language before the end of 2021?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

or the fundraising letter you hoped would generate $7,000 barely nets $3,000…. …or Are you sharing heartwarming stories that stir their heart and soul, moving them to donate? Was the story you told in this email powerful enough? Did the story have a strong accompanying photo or video? Maybe you’ve experienced this….

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. C3-ers generated great and useful ideas, but they were functionally an assembly of creative individuals, efficiently giving us input. I struggle with both these options. Low on friction.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

Understanding the new up-and-coming generation is a little like learning a new language—and I’m not just talking about deciphering their slang. This has been true from generation to generation. And we need to do so in their language. Tell stories. Again, this generation is all about issues and causes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The print book doesn’t work for people who are blind, partially sighted, dyslexic, have physical limitations, people who haven’t learned to read, or people who can’t read the particular language of a specific book is written in. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

It's possible--likely even--that today's adults are more motivated by interactive experiences than generations past. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They tell histories of white male conquest. Three quick lenses on Whiteness and privilege in museums: Whiteness is in the language we use to describe the objects that we show and the programs we produce. Just last month, there was the story of the low-income family kicked out of a Paris museum for being "too smelly."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Staff members led us in reframing our language to talk about the museum as transforming from a “traditional model to a 21 st century model” instead of failing and then succeeding. 85% of our visitors attend through events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices. The morning ritual is a chance for all to reflect on the organization’s results and be inspired.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Corporations and businesses sometimes create foundations or giving programs with funds generated from their profits. Translate your project into the language used by the resources and funders: key words, subject matter, geographic area, target audience, gender, race, and any parameters that fit your interests. Research Grant Guides.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". will essentially be a set of APIs and a new markup language that will allow third party developers to create applications that run within MySpace. The new developer platform.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It may include researching individuals’ giving history, political affiliations, and philanthropic interests, as well as analyzing publicly available data and market research. WealthEngine: This database provides comprehensive wealth and lifestyle information on individuals, including their philanthropic history and giving capacity.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

For over 20 years, EveryAction has provided technology to support nonprofits working to make the world a better place, and we’re honoring that history through our product roadmap and commitments. Our purpose is to power those who power social impact, and we came together for a reason: to better meet the needs of our customers—the doers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Dang, she’s done a lot of Bloomerang webinars over our 10-year history and is just one of my favorite people. So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. Be an ambassador but tell a specific story? . So humanizing and telling your money story at the same time.

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Qgiv

APRIL 8, 2024

Think about your donation amount descriptions and images, update the language on your donation button, and change the colors of the form to match your custom images if your donation form platform allows you to make those customizations. Remind your donors and supporters about the upcoming event to generate excitement and momentum.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them. Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals S.M.A.R.T.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories of individual women's successes that you can share? Women would tell all of these incredible stories throughout the negotiation training. The Cuban people took their own destiny in their hands and altered then the future for not only themselves, but also future generations.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Use an emotionally compelling image or a short story at the top of your form that illustrates what kind of positive impact your donors are having on your beneficiaries. You might tell a story about a person affected by your organization or about a particularly dedicated volunteer. Show the impact of each donation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Then around being an advocate, share their personal stories. You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. They share the history, they share the finances, all of that. . not a jet.

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Achieve

JULY 14, 2022

Then, over the course of 3-5 more emails, they will learn about your organization’s mission, available resources, and stories of impact. But as a general rule of thumb, an effective welcome email series starts with a general introduction then gradually invites readers to engage on a deeper level. Include an impact story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

Facebook Fans can ask the bot for information about the museum, such as opening times and where to buy tickets, or about Anne Frank herself and her history. The stories are about missionary projects such as helping nuns care for the kids in the slums of Nairobi. Health Information Support and Counseling. Here are two examples.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

In the meantime here is some language that Pamela Grow included in the Grow Report : “PS: If you’re using gmail to read The Grow Report, Gmail’s bizarre new interface is probably dumping me into your Promotions tab. And sometimes the easiest way to tell your organization’s story is, well, by actually telling it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

William is reading The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick. It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. Again, integrating your own personal stories can be highly motivating to people. . The only thing that makes you different is your stories. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

William is reading The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick. It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Scenario Number 3, your current campaign is doing better in the last two years been in the history of your organization. When they see nonprofit stories, when they see all of this information that you’re putting out there, it’s a suggestion on how they should feel about your organization, your clients, and the work that you do.

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